In September, Amazon started requiring drivers to take pictures of items delivered to your door step, if you don’t answer.

New advice strongly recommends home owners to install security cameras or invest in items that alert you if a package has been removed from its location.

The tried and true way to avoid it all together is to wait for your package in person or to have it delivered to your office.

“I work hard to provide for three kids at Christmas, I'm a single mom. So what they are doing is devastating not just for the people that are buying the presents but for the kids never get to open them at Christmas,” Shepherd said.

The woman in the video, Elise Rosa, has since been arrested and charged with four counts of unoccupied residential burglary, one count of occupied residential burglary and five counts of petit theft.

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